Twitter style and tone

luka

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luka

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its a specific twitter bot formqt. pictures of a girl and generic chocolate box wisdom/one liner gags
 

IdleRich

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This is the problem, I don’t really participate I’m just looking at the feed for news and takes, so I mainly just see tweets that get the most engagement where this clipped forced conversational style dominates
Same here actually. It's good cos you see the news quickly but I don't actually participate much.
 

RWY

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"Keep reading articles about how terrible Twitter is. I don't even tweet anymore really because it makes me too nervous, and yet I'm still here all day. I feel trapped, like I live in that farmhouse they built the M62 around because the owner refused to move." - Unknown

A long since deleted tweet from a fellow Vice writer (circa 2015?) that I have preserved in my .doc of online quotes.
 

RWY

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Has anyone read Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine? I picked up a copy in Foyles last year but never got around to reading it.

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luka

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shiels sign up to twitter. your name will be @bassanimal becasue you like dubstep

 

luka

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WashYourHands

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That’s another one - the follower

Follower/influencer. Sounds like mass again and only a chosen few can intercede as disciples/priests (the higher tiered follower), but not the true influencer

The flawlessly divine, or the profane Mirror God with its concaved reflections shining poison, if I think about the US last year so much footage of police brutality was Twitter led. A paradox
 

Leo

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hard to convey the level of pleasure in not caring about this topic, not being tempted to read five pages of posts, not having any point to make or side to take. that's not a value judgement, just nice to be clueless and apart from it all.
 

luka

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Mr. Tea said:


"an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans"

:ROFLMAO:

Muu-uum!!! The communists and the capitalists are ganging up on me again!

this is very twitter style and tone @shiels you should analyse this. the mocking laughter emoji. i don't know what Muu-umm!!! means but it's very twitter.
a lot of twitter is given over to this sort of thing. rigidly partisan. basically just throwing bananas and jeering at the other side.
writing as though all you really want to do is either make someone cry or send them into a uncontrolled tailspin of rage
 

luka

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not to imply i havent done anything similar but its worth keeping an eye on just so we can identify it when it happens and nip it in the bud
 

luka

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for a lot of people twitter is really just a battlefield. you can see this very clearly in twitter bios which frequently state which side of a divisive issue the user takes.
 
Yes lots of stuff designed to start a fight or written as if one is already ongoing that you should be familiar with. An assumed familiarity that can feel cloying

“So,...”
“OK guys “

etc

Just the first example from my feed not picking on this person and content is irrelevant


I also notice strained attempted at spontaneity, off the cuff drama I’m feeling this now. when the tweet has been quite obviously mulled over coldly to maximise casual style

“Just thinking about / guys I just realised / wait, ...” and all that

A lot of screenwriting in a way. In more ways than one
 
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